It has been a busy few days on the Winter Mountain Leader course with a visit to the North East corie of Beinn an Dothiadh, a snowhole expedition on the Cairngorm plateau and a visit to Coire na Tulaich to build emergency snow shelters.
The big gully lines are still complete in Beinn an Dothiadh and will be good given a freeze. The Cairngorm plateau still has good cover for ski touring although it is currently very firm.
![Andy Hogarth making a brew in our snowhole.](http://www.climbnow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSCF6295-640x480.jpg)